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Flashcards: Body Parts of Animals This site features flashcards with basic descriptions of vocabulary such as "claws," "horn," and "fins."

United Through Reading United Through Reading offers deployed parents the opportunity to video-record themselves reading storybooks to their children to help ease the difficulty of separation and cultivate a love of reading.

"Smart" by Shel Silverstein: Complete poem and activity This worksheet offers the complete poem cited in the article, as well as some fun related activities and questions.

#ELLCHAT Resources: Teaching Math and Science to ELLs ELLChat takes place every Monday evening at 9pm EST on Twitter. Here are the resources from an #ELLCHAT on teaching math and science to ELLs.

Education World: Technology in the Classroom Online activities for ESL students about technology.

Edutopia Since its inception in 1991, the George Lucas Educational Foundation has been documenting, disseminating, and advocating for exemplary programs in K-12 public schools to help these practices spread nationwide.

Eduweb A menu of virtual reality experiences from exploring the Amazon to experiencing a black hole. Sites are set up like computer games and allow users to interact with the material.

Google Translate

ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Direct your students to this ESL cyber listening lab with study guides, quizzes, and even teacher features.

Vocabulix: This online tool is designed to help jumpstart students’ vocabulary skills, with more than 90 vocabulary lessons, and the option to create lessons of your own.

Google Earth Google Earth for mobile enables you to explore the globe with a swipe of your finger. Fly through 3D cities like London, Tokyo and Rome.

PART II RESOURCES''

 Listening and speaking skills for elementary level EL students:

using common social greetings engaging in community-building activities such as describing schedules and pastimes discussing current events or pop culture expressing an opinion explaining why they did something

Grammar and vocabulary development strategies for elementary-level EL students:

Add native language translation and definition. Use pictures, examples, non-examples. With new vocabulary, provide simple/kid-friendly synonyms. Word Wall – students build it and use it with purpose use it in speaking every day to build their vocabulary bank Wordsteps: Wordsteps makes it easy for students to build their own vocabulary collection, and even access their vocabulary through a mobile device for English language learning on the go.

 Strategies for comprehensible input, feedback, building background, and student engagement:

Seat ELLs in the front of the classroom to hear and see instructions and demonstrations better Slow down when speaking. Don’t water down the content. Assign a buddy - nudge, explain, speak, read, be a friend Small group - mix it up, assign a responsibility Whole class - continue to nurture desire and language development. For example, students share written work if they can’t verbalize it; praises go a long way Allow ELLs to present project to a teacher or small group until they are ready to do it in front of the whole class

Grammar and vocabulary technology tools and resources appropriate for elementary EL students at different proficiency levels:

Dictionary Tools

Wiktionary (the free dictionary, 1,229.325 entries with English definitions from over 295 languages) Merriam-Webster Word Central (kids student dictionary, daily buzzword and interactive word games) iTools/Langauge (look up words in dictionaries and thesauruses)

Vocabulary Tools

VocabAhead (use to building a strong SAT, ACT and GRE vocabulary) Spelling City (input spelling lists for your students to use for free spelling help) Lexipedia (where words having meaning) Vocabulary.com (free resource to enhance vocabulary mastery and written/verbal skills with Latin and Greek roots) Visuwords (online graphical dictionary) Flocabulary (hip-hop in the classroom)

Text Cloud Tools

Wordle (generate "word clouds" from text that you provide) TagCrowd (visualize word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating a tag cloud or text cloud)

Writing Tools

PicLits (inspired picture writing) Gliffy (online diagramming software - use to diagram sentences or develop writing ideas) English Sentence Machine (a cross between Mad-Lib and a random sentence generator plus other games) Oxford University Press Sentence Machine (interactive sentence games) Zoho Writer (online word processor to create, edit and share documents easily) Read, Write and Think (many interactive activities can be found here)

Grammar Tools

Free Rice Grammar (grammar site that donates 10 grains of rice for the right answers to Word Food Program) Grammar Quizzes (McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center interactive grammar quizzes) Grammar Girl (podcasts of grammar tips and tricks)

Bibliography Tools

Knight Cite Bibliography Maker (free online citation generator service from Calvin College) Easy Bib (free automatic bibliography and citation maker)

Free E-Book Sites

Project Gutenberg (site contains over 30,00 free e-books for download to read on PC, iPhone, Kindle, etc.) Planet eBook (free classic literature to download and share with anyone) 20 Sites to Download Free e-Books (scroll down on this page to find the 20 sites)